Sentences with phrase «written by an evangelical»

Currently, novels written by evangelicals tend toward the propagandistic (even to the extent of fictionalizing Bible stories and foretelling the Second Coming) and away from the artful.

Not exact matches

«Following the pounding of Todd Akin by the GOP kings and lieutenants in the last 36 hours, I've come to the conclusion that the real issue is the soul of America,» wrote David Lane, an evangelical activist who's influential in the Republican Party, in an e-mail to fellow activists Thursday morning.

The evangelical leadership are men, the bible was written by men, and enforced by men.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

At the time you wrote this blog, you were in the employ of the Grace Evangelical Society headed by who?

In another cry of financial justice when one of the old guard who writes so eloquently about justice and criticizes evangelicals who do not tip was, by a twist of fate, in my cab.

Written primarily by Karl Barth on behalf of the German Evangelical Church, a federal union of Lutheran, Reformed, and United churches, Barmen was the resounding «no» to the political agenda of the Third Reich.

One of my goals in writing A Year of Biblical Womanhood was to help evangelicals «take back» Proverbs 31 as a blessing, not a to - do list, by identifying and celebrating women of valor.

She has written more than one hundred articles and blogs and has contributed to nine books, most recently Living Faith: The Fragrance of Christ, published by the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief.

Maybe it's just because I've lived in the Bible Belt my whole life, but when Smith writes that, among evangelicals, Jesus often gets «sidelined by the interest in defending every proposition and account as inerrant, universally applicable, contemporarily applicable, and so on in ways that try to make the faith «relevant» for everyday concerns,» I totally get it.

You may also want to review the most blog recent series, «It's Time to Listen,» written by African - American Evangelicals addressing race, Ferguson, and justice.

«His demonization in the 1970s has been replaced by lionizations in the 2000s — at least among the nation's 65 million evangelical Christians,» Jonathan Aitken wrote in his 2005 biography.

When I approached a series of different evangelical Christians about writing for this blog about their perspectives on contraception, I was struck by how similar their stories were to my own.

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

I read this article, «Wonder and the Revitalization of Evangelical Theology» written by Glen Scorgie in Crux Magazine back in December of 1990.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

The word «evangelical» distinguishes that group in Christendom whose dedication to the gospel is expressed in a personal faith in Christ as Lord and whose understanding of the gospel is defined solely by Scripture, the written Word of God.

(As you may remember, I wrote a post back in March saying that John McCain's efforts to reach evangelicals by seeking out endorsements from John Hagee and Rod Parsley was a terrible idea and ought to get pounced on by the media.)

Others have written about an «evangelical tipping point» represented by this moment and I think they are right.

About this Thomas wrote later, «In a speech on evangelism given by the British evangelical, John Stott, he criticized me for seeing too much convergence in the theologies of evangelism of the Lausanne Conference 1974, the Roman Catholic Bishops» Synod 1974, and the WCC Bangkok Consultation 1973.

There were almost no books written for college educated conservative evangelicals by Americans back then, so you had to read British authors.

In The American Evangelical Story, Douglas A. Sweeney writes, «Most black Christians, though evangelical by many definitions, resist identifying closely with the evangelicaEvangelical Story, Douglas A. Sweeney writes, «Most black Christians, though evangelical by many definitions, resist identifying closely with the evangelicaevangelical by many definitions, resist identifying closely with the evangelicalevangelical movement.

While that view may have been «written over 2000 years ago by men in a misogynistic society», it is still embraced as a central tenet in the church that Mrs. Bachmann belonged to — the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

And then, if one has any doubts, he gives it all away by concluding the book with an extended advertisement for Cry for Renewal, a document written by Jim Wallis, editor of the evangelical left - wing journal Sojourners.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

The collection of essays which follows, written by leading evangelical theologians, demonstrates convincingly the breadth of evangelicalism's umbrella.

Could it be because it was «written» by a disgruntled ex Evangelical Fortune Cookie Co. «writer»?

Written by Charles Wesley, its words and music are much beloved by evangelicals throughout Texas and the South.

Howell, Wheeler, and Rice write and respond to one another as individuals who have been influenced significantly by process thought and an evangelical heritage.

«I fear that evangelicals who wish lovingly, creatively, and entrepreneurially to establish relationships of positive witness with Muslims and others will be overly inhibited and held back by fear of fellow Christians and how they might react,» he wrote.

Just the other day I picked up a book by a young evangelical who criticized postmodernism and wrote, «Still worse is deconstructionism, which says, «It's not that I don't know the truth, it's that I just don't care.

Nor was it written out of a desire to respond to any supposed «rejection» of my work by the evangelical community.

(It is a mystery, isn't it, why so many popular parenting books in evangelical circles are written by men.

«Imagine Ted Cruz traveling to the Bronx where there is a grassroots army of Black and Hispanic Evangelical Christians who are just like him — and who have been ignored by every Presidential candidate,» Mr. Diaz wrote today in one of his periodic e-mail blasts to constituents.

Earlier this year, Christian evangelicals, who have a direct line to the White House, launched the «Evangelical Climate Initiative», signed by 86 evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven LEvangelical Climate Initiative», signed by 86 evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven Levangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven Life».